Man cuts off his own penis in UK restaurant
{{date|April 25, 2007}}
[[Image:LondonWestminster.png|right|200px|thumb|Map highlighting the City of Westminster, a borough of London.]]
An unnamed [[Poland|Polish]] man, 35, is being treated at a hospital in [[London]], [[England]] after he cut off his {{w|penis}} with a knife at Zizzi's pizza restaurant on {{w|Strand, London|Strand Street}} in the city of {{w|City of Westminster|Westminster}}.

"We were called at 9.00 p.m. on Sunday to a restaurant on the Strand to reports of a man in possession of a knife. Officers attended to discover a man believed to be 30-40 years old suffering from an injury. He was taken to a south London hospital in a stable condition. No one else was injured and his injuries are believed to be self inflicted," said a [[Scotland Yard]] spokesperson.

Police had to use {{w|CS gas|CS tear gas}} on the victim in order to subdue him to get him to the hospital to receive medical attention.

Witnesses say that the man came into the restaurant, picked a knife up off the floor of the kitchen and then got onto a table and cut off his penis.

"At around 9 p.m. on Sunday, a man walked into the Zizzi restaurant on The Strand, down the stairs to the basement restaurant area and tried to enter a kitchen. Members of staff stopped him, at which he ran into a second kitchen area. The man then picked up a kitchen knife and slashed himself across the wrist and groin areas before running back into the restaurant, where he continued to stab himself," said a spokesperson for the restaurant.

Surgeons are attempting to reattach his organ in what doctors call the first time this kind of surgery has been performed in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]. It is not yet known if the operation was successful.

"If it doesn't take, then you would have to re-amputate it. Attaching the penis is a very long, complex and painstaking operation," said Francis Chinegwundoh, a {{w|urologist}} at St Bartholomew's Hospital which is located in London. Chinegwundoh also said that that the victim will not feel his penis and it will not be possible for him to maintain an erection unless he uses a special machine, even if the operation were a success.
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[[Category:Europe]]
[[Category:United Kingdom]]
[[Category:England]]
[[Category:Health]]
[[Category:Metropolitan Police]]
Map highlighting the City of Westminster, a borough of London.
An unnamed Polish man, 35, is being treated at a hospital in London, England after he cut off his Strand, London|Strand Street in the city of Westminster.

"We were called at 9.00 p.m. on Sunday to a restaurant on the Strand to reports of a man in possession of a knife. Officers attended to discover a man believed to be 30-40 years old suffering from an injury. He was taken to a south London hospital in a stable condition. No one else was injured and his injuries are believed to be self inflicted," said a Scotland Yard spokesperson.

Police had to use CS tear gas on the victim in order to subdue him to get him to the hospital to receive medical attention.

Witnesses say that the man came into the restaurant, picked a knife up off the floor of the kitchen and then got onto a table and cut off his penis.

"At around 9 p.m. on Sunday, a man walked into the Zizzi restaurant on The Strand, down the stairs to the basement restaurant area and tried to enter a kitchen. Members of staff stopped him, at which he ran into a second kitchen area. The man then picked up a kitchen knife and slashed himself across the wrist and groin areas before running back into the restaurant, where he continued to stab himself," said a spokesperson for the restaurant.

Surgeons are attempting to reattach his organ in what doctors call the first time this kind of surgery has been performed in the UK. It is not yet known if the operation was successful.

"If it doesn't take, then you would have to re-amputate it. Attaching the penis is a very long, complex and painstaking operation," said Francis Chinegwundoh, a  at St Bartholomew's Hospital which is located in London. Chinegwundoh also said that that the victim will not feel his penis and it will not be possible for him to maintain an erection unless he uses a special machine, even if the operation were a success.
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